Successful Scientific Track at the OWC 2017

The Scientific Track at the Organic World Congress, November 9-11 2017 in New Delhi, India, contributed to the global discussion on Organic 3.0, and took the opportunity to answer some of the challenges in the context of the Indian subcontinent in particular. After a double-blind review, done by 120 reviewers from various disciplines in research institutions throughout the world, about 183 scientific papers from 50 countries were accepted. All the papers can be found in a two-volume proceedings in the database Organic E-prints: www.orgprints.org/32350 (Volume 1) and www.orgprints.org/32352 (Volume 2).

Against the backdrop of the global challenges, in the scientific track the discussions and presentations focused on the potential of organic farming, considering these topics:

Feeding the world (productivity, efficiency);

Minimizing food chain induced global changes (ecology);

Respect for ethical and cultural issues (ethics);

Improvement of the quality and health benefits of food (quality);

How to make organic prosper and be profitable (economics);

Better cooperation among global research communities (networking).

Research results were presented and discussed in 20 sessions of 1.5 hours each, linked to ordinary scientific disciplines such as soil, plant, animal, economics and social science.